David Joyner has accepted a position with Udacity as a course developer for the Georgia Tech Online Master’s in Computer Science. David will develop the CS7637 Knowledge-Based AI course with Ashok Goel, which will be included in the Master’s program in Fall of 2014.

Christian Tuchez, a third-year undergraduate in computer science, has joined DILab. He is working on the Biologically-Inspired Design project. Welcome, Christian!

Gongbo Zhang, a Master’s student in DILab working on the Biologically Inspired Design project, has completed his Master’s in Computer Science. Congratulations, Gongbo!

David Joyner and Ashok Goel have had a paper accepted to the 2014 Intelligent User Interfaces conference in Haifa, Israel. The paper is titled MILA-S: Generation of agent-based simulations from conceptual models.

David Joyner successfully presented the proposal for his dissertation titled Metacognitive Tutoring for Inquiry-Driven Modeling.

Over the past three weeks, over 250 students at a local middle school have used MILA to explore a recent massive fish kill in Lake Clara Meer. This experiment builds on the pilot study run in the summer of 2012.

Arvind Krishnaa Jagannathan will be working at Yahoo! for a summer internship on data mining projects.  Good luck, Arvind!

Maithilee Kunda and Swaroop Vattam have both had papers accepted for poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, which will take place in Berlin, Germany, this summer.  Congrats!

Professor Li Shu from University of Toronto visited DILab. She gave a talk entitled “Biological analogies and environmental lead-user insights as sources of ideas for conceptual design,” and engaged in a productive discussion on the use of natural language processing in biologically inspired design.

At the Georgia Tech Research & Innovation Conference (a.k.a., GTRIC), Bryan Wiltgen presented a poster that he co-authored with Dr. Ashok K. Goel. The poster was titled “Towards an Artificial Teammate: Understanding Team Interactions in Biologically Inspired Design”.